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People of the Lake: Mankind & Its Beginnings

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Are we hopelessly aggressive stupid apes? Is the stupid, aggressive, short-sighted-selfish behavior, which is so typical of our present society, also typical of our ancestors; or were they different. Is the blind and destructive impulse this society an aberration? Leakey argues that the fossil, paleontological, and anthropological evidence from millions of years ago and the present show that our current society is a dangerous aberration and degradation from millions of years of human and pre-human societies based on sharing and altruism. This is arguably one of the most important books ever written.

ITs essential to read this book, in order to get a good handle on paleontology, anthropology ,and sociological phenomenon. Really explains alot about humankind.

Lets face it fame is fickle and fleeting. This book was once a best seller from famed anthropologist Richard Leaky. The lake is Turkana and the time is fifteen million years ago.
This book covers Leakey's finds and his interpretation of such finds. There is s small black and white glossy section that displays the lake and several ancestors (including Australopithecus.)
The table of contents is:
People of the Lake
A question of survival
In the Beginning
A New Perspective on Human origins
The Human Family Unearthed
Lessons from Bones and Stones
An Ancient way of life
The first Affluent society
The nature of Intelligence
The Origins of Language
Sex and the need for Women's Liberation
An End to the Hunting Hypothesis
As you can see this is not just a book about bones. He also quotes a lot of Freud. So I do not know why this book fell out of favor. However it makes for some good background reading.

Lets face it fame is fickle and fleeting. This book was once a best seller from famed anthropologist Richard Leaky. The lake is Turkana and the time is fifteen million years ago.
This book covers Leakey's finds and his interpretation of such finds. There is s small black and white glossy section that displays the lake and several ancestors (including Australopithecus.)
The table of contents is:
People of the Lake
A question of survival
In the Beginning
A New Perspective on Human origins
The Human Family Unearthed
Lessons from Bones and Stones
An Ancient way of life
The first Affluent society
The nature of Intelligence
The Origins of Language
Sex and the need for Women's Liberation
An End to the Hunting Hypothesis
As you can see this is not just a book about bones. He also quotes a lot of Freud. So I do not know why this book fell out of favor. However it makes for some good background reading.

Lets face it fame is fickle and fleeting. This book was once a best seller from famed anthropologist Richard Leaky. The lake is Turkana and the time is fifteen million years ago.
This book covers Leakey's finds and his interpretation of such finds. There is s small black and white glossy section that displays the lake and several ancestors (including Australopithecus.)
The table of contents is:
People of the Lake
A question of survival
In the Beginning
A New Perspective on Human origins
The Human Family Unearthed
Lessons from Bones and Stones
An Ancient way of life
The first Affluent society
The nature of Intelligence
The Origins of Language
Sex and the need for Women's Liberation
An End to the Hunting Hypothesis
As you can see this is not just a book about bones. He also quotes a lot of Freud. So I do not know why this book fell out of favor. However it makes for some good background reading.